13 November 2005

Gardening –Native American Style

Memo to multiculturalists and their media parrots:

My wife and I are avid gardeners, and shortly after moving to Wisconsin in August we enrolled in Sauk County’s 13-weekMaster Gardener Program.Upon completion of this course (in theory, at least), we will be able to look down our noses at the “ordinary” gardener.

Said VDARE’s Joe Guzzardi, “This class will be a nice diversion from the immigration issue.”

Wrong.

The speaker at our most recent class works for the Sauk County Land Conservation Department, and her subject was Native Plants - Why?” In other words, be careful of what you stick in the soil if you care at all about your original environs. Invasiveis the operative word here.

Such plants often show up where they don’t belong by sheer accident, i.e., their seeds are carried by the wind or in bird or animal droppings, etc. But, increasingly, she said, an area’s original beauty can be destroyed because people deliberately add “exotic” plants to their landscaping in order to achieve, uh, you know: horticultural diversity.

“We all bought into the idea of biodiversity,” she said, which in a natural state is fine. Where biodiversity goes haywire is when we humans, with little thought given to the consequences, attempt to create such a system believing that the various elements introduced will be compatible with each other and ignoring the possibility that one of them will end up dominating all the rest.

Hmmmmmmm.

News Alert: Rap Singers Meet Without Killing Each Other

Have a look at this headline posted by the Associated Press earlier today:

Hip-hop stars on best behavior at awards show By Dean Goodman , November 12, 05

Ok look, there was this one incident a long time ago–there was a judge, something about anger management and basically it comes down to this:

I am not allowed to read any news reports which contain the words “hip-hop” or “awards show.”

But there had to be more to this story! Why would Reuters run a “nothing happened” headline? I decided to read the article:

“The furniture stayed intact and tempers were kept in check on Saturday at the third annual Vibe awards…”

Ooh…did you hear what happened? A group of human beings met in public and nothing happened! Everybody was clapping and cheering when this chair didn‘t fly through the window–now that is a sight to not see!

The decline of society is pretty much complete when good manners and civility are shocking.